Transcript Coaching Styles

Coaching Youth Livestock Projects
Kyle Merten – Extension Associate
Objectives
• What defines a successful coach
– Coaching philosophy and objectives
– Coaching styles
– Effective communication
– Credibility with youth
– Motivating youth
– Teaching effectively
• Decision making activity and discussion
• Coaching Scenarios
What is Successful
Coaching?
• Defined Coaching Philosophy and goals
• Understands various coaching styles
• Understands the importance of effective
communication
• Gains credibility with youth
• Motivates youth
• Teaches effectively
Coaching Philosophy
and Objectives
• Coaching philosophy provides a basis for a coach’s
beliefs and priorities involving young people and their
livestock projects.
• Coaching objectives help youth
– be successful
– have fun
– develop physically, psychologically, and socially.
• Determine what is most important in the livestock
project experience when developing objectives
• Coaching philosophy and objectives should center on
the young person’s well-being.
• Primary focus should be to provide challenges and
develop life skills and character traits in youths.
Success and Failure
• Success - the achievement of
something desired, planned or attempted
• Failure - not achieving what you desire,
plan or attempt
• Success and failure are
not about winning and losing.
• Did the youth meet the goals
in which they set for their project?
• How were those goals accomplished?
• REMEMBER setting goals should be
based on things that can be controlled!
Competition
• Participating in livestock projects
immerses young people in
competition
• Teaches youth moral development
• Person committed to a cause while
learning life lessons does not need
to win a contest to be a winner
• Coach must communicate this
message.
Coaching Styles
• Martens identifies the three most widely
used coaching styles as Command,
Submissive, and Cooperative
• Command: Coach makes all decisions
related to livestock projects based on the
assumption that he or she is knowledgeable
in all aspects of the project.
Youths must respond to the
coach’s decisions and
commands.
Submissive
• Submissive: Coach takes as
little responsibility in the
decision-making process as
possible, giving little guidance,
instruction, or direction to the
youths.
Cooperative
• Cooperative: Decision making is shared
between the coach and the youths. The
coach values their input and recognizes that
they cannot gain responsibility unless they
are involved in a decision making process. At
the same time, the coach is still the leader
and should provide guidance and instruction
during the decision-making process.
Coaching Styles
• Important for coaches to identify
different coaching situations so proper
coaching style can be used
• Success of coaching experience is
greatly determined on how coach
reacts to certain situations.
Communication
• Communication - sending and receiving
messages, both verbally and nonverbally.
– Divided into content and emotion
– Content – overall message
and expressed verbally
– Emotion – affects the way
an individual interprets the
message
• 70 percent of communication
takes place nonverbally.
• Must be able to send and receive messages
– Most coaches good at sending but not receiving
(listener)
Communication
• Most coaches are excellent senders of messages,
but are not good at receiving them
• Active listening is an important aspect of being an
effective communicator
• Martens provides reasons for ineffective
communication
– Content may be wrong for the situation
– Message does not communicate what you intend
because you lack the verbal or nonverbal skills needed
to send the message
– Youth does not receive message because he or she
isn’t paying attention
– Youth understands the message content but
misinterprets its intent
– Messages sent are inconsistent over time, leaving
youth confused about what is meant
Credibility
• One of the most challenging but most
important
• Three ways to gain credibility:
– Being an active listener
(passive and active)
– Positive reinforcement
– Realistic expectations
• Normal people only hear 20% of what
others say
Motivation
• Make things fun
• Demonstrate and teach winning is not everything
• Stress importance of setting goals and working towards
them
• Extrinsic motivation - motivation outside
a person or the job at hand
– Ex – ribbon, trophy, money, free time
• Intrinsic motivation – motivation comes
from within a person through the job or
activity at hand
– Ex – recognition, achievement, challenge,
development
• Successful coaches emphasize
intrinsic motivation
• Self-fulfillng prophecy is detrimental
to motivation
Effective Teaching
• Must know subject matter and be able to pass it
on effectively.
• Be creative in teaching approaches
• Effective teaching involves:
– Research – Must be up to date on all livestock
trends, breed changes, validation processes and
rules and regulations
– Planning – develop long-term and short-term plans
– Implementation – develop teaching style,
understanding how youth learn, use hands-onapproach
– Evaluation – Pre evaluation important to gain info
on youth before and after for research and planning.
Post evaluations important to see how much they
have learned. Relay results to youth
Power of Influence
Activity
Overview
• Review of the Six Pillars of Character
• What role youth have in Food Supply
Continuum
• What defines a successful coach
• How does power and influence affect
youth livestock projects
• How do different coaching styles affect
youth livestock projects?
Final Thought
• Vince Lombardi once said, “A man can
be as great as he wants to be. If you
believe in yourself and have the
courage, the determination, the
dedication, the competitive drive and if
you are willing to sacrifice the little
things in life and pay the price for the
things that are worthwhile, it can be
done.”